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1) Das boot
Series
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Description
At the height of World War II, a young submarine crew heads out to sea on a top-secret mission that all but ensures most will never make it home alive. Ordered to patrol the Atlantic and destroy an allied armada bringing supplies to Britain, these raw recruits must band together, bracing themselves against a depth-charge assault from an unseen enemy. Can the captain and his crew summon the strength to escape their watery grave?
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"The heroic story of the founding of the U.S. Navy during the Revolution has been told before, yet missing from most maritime histories of America's first war is the ragtag fleet of private vessels, from 20-foot whaleboats to 40-cannon men-of-war, that truly revealed the new nation's character-above all, its ambition and entrepreneurial ethos. In Rebels atSea, best-selling historian Eric Jay Dolin corrects that significant omission, and contends that...
3) U-571
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
During World War II, a group of Navy men are sent to steal Enigma (the Nazis' top-secret decoding device). When their own ship is destroyed, they must secretly make their way through hostile waters in a severely damaged Nazi U-boat to safety with the device.
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
2006, c2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 50 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Join the History Channel for the extraordinary story behind the U.S. submarine that made a name for itself as the scourge of the Japanese army during World War II"--Packaging.
6) Crash dive
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set during World War II, this adventure features two Navy men vying for the love of the same woman and having to serve together on a dangerous mission to destroy a Nazi base.
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Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
572 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Description
"In The Struggle for Sea Power, Sam Willis traces every key military event in the path to American independence from a naval perspective, and he also brings this important viewpoint to bear on economic, political, and social developments that were fundamental to the success of the Revolution. In doing so Willis offers valuable new insights into American, British, French, Spanish, Dutch, and Russian history."--Amazon.com.
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (171 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In September 1942 at the height of the battle for the Atlantic, a German U-boat torpedoed the RMS Laconia, sinking the British ship without knowing that it carried more than 2,000 passengers, many of them civilians. What followed is a harrowing true story of heroism, heartbreak, and unexpected humanity in the midst of the bloodiest conflict in history.
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A brilliant, concise and, perhaps, best single volume history of the Second World War at Sea. Written by veteran historian E. B. Potter during his time as resident historian at the United States Naval Academy this history is filled with action and analysis. As the conflict raged from the Pacific to the North Sea the author takes the action in each theater for the purposes of clarity but masterfully links the actions and events together to preserve...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xxxi, 622 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Description
"This ... history encompasses the heart of the Pacific War--the period between mid-1942 and mid-1944--when parallel Allied counteroffensives north and south of the equator washed over Japan's far-flung island empire like a 'conquering tide,' concluding with Japan's irreversible strategic defeat in the Marianas. It was the largest, bloodiest, most costly, most technically innovative and logistically complicated amphibious war in history, and it fostered...
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The thunderous roar of exploding depth charges was a familiar and comforting sound to the crew members of the USS Barb, who frequently found themselves somewhere between enemy fire and Davy Jones's locker. Under the leadership of her fearless skipper, Captain Gene Fluckey, the Barb sank the greatest tonnage of any American sub in World War II. At the same time, the Barb did far more than merely sink ships-she changed forever the way submarines stalk...
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (60 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The Union's USS Monitor was a decisive factor in the Civil War. Today it rests in the nation's first marine sanctuary. Join a team of Navy divers as they attempt to recover priceless artifacts; meet the ship designer who built the Monitor; see a realistic reenactment of the battle that changed the course of the Civil War; and discover a powerful military past as the secrets of the Monitor's service emerge from the deep.
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Pub. Date
2021
Physical Desc
211 pages
Description
“As the oil tanker began to emerge from another hard right turn, Matsumura ordered the tube’s muzzle door opened, and waited. The I-21 slowly reached a ninety-degree angle to the target’s path. The commander gave the order. ‘Fire!’” Thus began one of the great unknown stories of World War II—an attack on a U.S. commercial vessel off the Central Coast of California in December 1941. That it happened was stunning enough. That so few even...
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Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"By the spring of 1945, the once mighty Japanese fleet has been virtually destroyed, leaving Japan open to invasion. The Japanese react by dispatching hundreds of suicide bombers against the Allied fleet surrounding Okinawa. By mid-May, the Allied fleet is losing a major ship a day to murderous swarms of kamikazes streaming out of Formosa and southern Japan. The radar picket line is the first defense and early warning against these hellish formations,...
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Publisher
Open Road Integrated Media
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
557 pages : illustrations, maps ; cm.
Description
Six months after Pearl Harbor, the seemingly invincible Imperial Japanese Navy proposed a decisive blow against the United States. After sweeping through Asia and the South Pacific, Japan's military targeted the tiny atoll of Midway, an ideal launching pad for the invasion of Hawaii and beyond. But the US Navy would be waiting for them. Thanks to cutting-edge code-breaking technology, tactical daring, and a significant stroke of luck, the Americans...
Author
Publisher
Casemate
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
360 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Description
The final days of Germany's greatest battleship illuminates the strategic implications and dramatic battles surrounding the "Tirpitz," a ship that may have had greater influence on the course of World War II than her more famous sister, the "Bismarck."
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Publisher
NAL Caliber
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
x, 543 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
Description
America in 1775 was on the verge of revolution-- or, more likely, disastrous defeat. After the bloodshed at Lexington and Concord, England's King George sent hundreds of ships westward to bottle up American harbors and prey on American shipping. Colonists had no force to defend their coastline and waterways until John Adams of Massachusetts proposed a bold solution: The Continental Congress should raise a navy.
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